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The Sea and Poison

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Availability:In StockContributor:Shusaku Endo, Michael Gallagher (Translator)Series:Revived Modern Classic #0737Publish date:1992-04-17Pages:175
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811211987ISBN-10:811211983UPC:9780811211987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Historical, ReligiousBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.95 x 5.33 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC385DQN7T
The Sea and Poison was the first Japanese book to confront the problem of individual responsibility in wartime, painting a searing picture of the human race's capacity for inhumanity. At the outset of this powerful story we find a Doctor Suguro in a backwater of modern-day Tokyo practicing expert medicine in a dingy office. He is haunted by his past experience and it is that past which the novel unfolds. During the war Dr. Suguro serves his internship in a hospital where the senior staff is more interested in personal career-building than in healing. He is induced to assist in a horrifying vivisection of a POW. "What is it that gets you," one of his colleagues asks. "Killing that prisoner? The conscience of man, is that it?"
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811211987ISBN-10:811211983UPC:9780811211987Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Classics, Historical, ReligiousBook Topic:20th CenturySize:7.95 x 5.33 x 0.47 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC385DQN7T
Endo, Shusaku: - Shusaku Endo (1923-1996) is widely regarded as one of the most important Japanese authors of the late twentieth century. He won many major literary awards and was nominated for the Nobel Prize several times. His novel Silence was recently made into a major film directed by Martin Scorsese.
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation

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